Connecting to SQL Server 2000 with MS SQL Server Driver for JDBC

Question

Hi,
I am brand new to JDBC . I have installed JDBC driver (for JDBC 2.0) from the Microsoft site and made relevant changes to the class path variable to include the driver paths, as suggested in the driver help documnnts. I have written a simple java code to register. But i get "class NotFound" error.
here's my code. What am I doing wrong? Thnaks for the help....
class Test {
     public Test() throws Exception {
          // Get Connection
     //     Class.forName("com.microsoft.jdbc.sqlserver.SQLServerDriver");
     DriverManager.registerDriver (new com.microsoft.jdbc.sqlserver.SQLServerDriver());
          Connection conn = DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:microsoft:sqlserver://SQL1:1433",myuser,mypwd);
          if (conn != null) {
               System.out.println();
               System.out.println("Successful Connection");
               System.out.println();
               // Meta Data
               DatabaseMetaData meta = conn.getMetaData();
               System.out.println("\n Driver Information");
               System.out.println("Driver Name: " + meta.getDriverName());
               System.out.println("Driver Version: " + meta.getDriverVersion());
               System.out.println("\n Database Information");
               System.out.println("Database Name: " + meta.getDatabaseProductName());
               System.out.println("Database Version: " + meta.getDatabaseProductVersion());
     } //Test
     public static void main(String [] args) throws Exception {
          Test test = new Test();
}

Answer 1

Hi MoD,
This is the exact command I used for compiling
C:\>javac -classpath "c:\java;c:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Driver
for JDBC\lib\mssqlserver.jar;c:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Driver f
or JDBC\lib\msbase.jar;c:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Driver for JDB
C\lib\msutil.jar" c:\java\Test.java
To Execute I used
C:\>java -classpath "c:\java;c:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Driver
for JDBC\lib\mssqlserver.jar;c:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Driver f
or JDBC\lib\msbase.jar;c:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Driver for JDB
C\lib\msutil.jar" c:\java\Test
In fact it kept thrwing up the Class Not Found error for the above commands.
But as U suggested I removed the classpath and executed both javac and java commands without classpath clause , and guess what it worked for the line
Class.forName("com.microsoft.jdbc.sqlserver.SQLServerDriver");
(i.e., it dint throw any exception like before). So can I assume that driver is successfully registered?
I tried using Jcreator for compile and run. But I got the same error msg as the commands given above with calsspath caluse. Is there a way around for this to make it work from an external editing tool like Jcreator apart from removing the classpath option from the JDKTool optional setting(doing this did not help for me)
Also one last favor: How do I connect with the trusted connection option? (i.e. it should use already logged in windows authentification login)
Thanks for all U'r help. I appreciate it very much.
Suma